2023-06

Immersive Learning and Metaverse Series
Education meets the Metaverse, is it just another beautiful gimmick?

In this seminar, teaching award winning speakers will share their experience and strategies to design and deliver their Common Core Teaching Excellence Award winning courses.

Today’s learning can occur anywhere exceeding the physical space limitation, thanks to technological advancement. Scholars and educators are keen on designing and developing technologies and tools that can be leveraged to provide immersive and authentic learning experiences for students.

Seminar Overview:

Speaker:  Prof. Raymond Wong, Professor (CSE)
                2020 Medalist of the Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching

Virtually on Zoom:

The “New Faculty Orientation: Teaching and Learning at HKUST” is a teaching and learning introductory program for all teaching staff who has recently joined the University. This two- day program is offered twice a year in August and January and specifically designed to take account of some key aspects of teaching and learning in the context of HKUST.

Seminar Abstract

The University Teaching and Learning Course is offered to all new teaching staff and on-the-job faculty.  For the new comers, this course will prepare you on some important aspects of university teaching and learning, such as cou

Speaker:  Dr Richard Blackburn
                Lecturer, University of Leicester, the U.K.

Format:  Seminar

Speakers:  Prof. Agnes KU, Associate Professor, SOSC
                  Prof. Rhea Liem, Assistant Professor, MAE

Venue:  Room 6558 (Lift 27/28)

The University Teaching and Learning Course is offered to all new teaching staff and on-the-job faculty. For the new comers, this course will prepare you on some important aspects of university teaching and learning, such as course design, learning assessment and feedback, teaching for student engagement and working with groups. For the experienced faculty, this course can give you new insights in your teaching and useful advice on current teaching pedagogy to enhance student learning.

Program Rundown

Kick-Start Package to enable Active Learning

Speakers: Prof Roger Cheng, Associate Provost (Teaching & Learning)
                 Professor Sean McMinn, Associate Professor of Language Education, CLE
                 Ms Delian Gaskell, Senior Lecturer, CLE
                 Prof Ben Chan, Associate Professor of Engineering Education, CIVL & Associate Director, E2I
Format: Seminar

Venue: Room 6558 (lift 27/28)

Speaker:  Professor Mick Healey
                Higher Education Consultant and Researcher,
                Emeritus Professor, University of Gloucestershire, UK.
Format:  Seminar
    
We are delighted that Professor Mick Healey from the UK has revisited HKUST to give two workshops on 14 December 2018. He last visited the University for a week in 2011.

Speaker:  Prof Theodore CLARK, Associate Professor, Department of ISOM

Format:  Seminar

Seminar Overview:

Why transition to Blended Learning?

Simply because students are more active throughout class, can learn more and enjoy what they are learning.

Speakers:  Prof Ben Chan, Associate Professor of Engineering Education (CIVL),
                  Associated Director, Center for Engineering Education Innovation

                  Dr. Kenneth Leung, Lecturer (CSE)

Venue:  Room 6558 (Lifts 27-28)

Facilitator:  Miss Phoebe Mok, Senior Education Development Officer, Center for Education Innovation

Venue:  Room 6558 (Lifts 27-28)

Workshops Overview:

This program is for HKUST teaching support staff (e.g. Instructional Assistant; Teaching Associate) who are engaged in teaching-related activities, such as small-group teaching and/or marking students’ work.

The University Teaching and Learning Course is offered to all new professors and on-the-job faculty.  For the new comers, this course will prepare you on some important aspects of university teaching and learning, such as course design, learning assessment and feedback, teaching for student engagement and working with groups.  For the experienced faculty, this course can give you new insights in your teaching and useful advice on current teaching pedagogy to enhance student learning.

Speakers:
Prof May-yi Shaw (Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities, HKUST)
Dr Roselyn Du (Associate Professor, Dept of Journalism, HKBU)
Dr Jess King (Lecturer, Dept of Earth Sciences, HKU)

Speaker:  David Brown
                Adjunct Assistant Professor
                Division of Environment and Sustainability

Venue:  Room 6558 (Lifts 27-28)

Speaker:  Dawn Bennett
                John Curtin Distinguished Professor of Higher Education
                Director, Creative Workforce Initiative,
                Curtin University

                National Senior Australian Learning and Teaching Fellow,
               The Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows
                Principal Fellow, The Higher Education Academy, UK

Format:  Seminar

Speakers:  Professor LAM Lai Chuen, Paul
                  Associate Professor, The Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research,
                  The Chinese University of Hong Kong

                  Mr. Kevin Wong
                  Research Associate, The Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research,
                  The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Format:  Seminar

The University Teaching and Learning Course is offered to all new professors and on-the-job faculty.  For the new comers, this course will prepare you on some important aspects of university teaching and learning, such as course design, learning assessment and feedback, teaching for student engagement and working with groups.  For the experienced faculty, this course can give you new insights in your teaching and useful advice on current teaching pedagogy to enhance student learning.

Speakers:  Professor Chi-Keung Woo
                  Professor, Asian and Policy Studies
                  Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies and Student Learning) of Faculty of Liberal Arts and
                  Social Sciences, Education University of Hong Kong  
                  Dr. Alice Shiu
                  Associate Professor, School of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Business,
                  Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Speaker:  Professor Andrew Horner
                Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Format:  Seminar

Speaker:  Prof Garvin Percy Dias
                Associate Professor of Business Education, Department of ISOM

Format:  Seminar

Speaker:  Dr Jason CHAN, Lecturer,
                Department of Chemistry

Format:  Seminar

The University Teaching and Learning Course has offered to all new professors and on-the-job faculty. This course prepared for the new comers on some important aspects of university teaching and learning, such as course design, learning assessment and feedback, teaching for student engagement and working with groups. For the experienced faculty, this course can give new insights in your teaching and useful advice on current teaching pedagogy to enhance student learning.

Facilitators:  Nanda Dimitrov, Ph.D
                     Acting Director, Teaching Support Centre
                     Adjunct Research Scholar, Centre for Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education,
                     Western University

                     Aisha Haque, Language and Communication Instructor, Teaching Support Centre, Western University

Format:  Seminar

Students learning styles and preferences are changing and HKUST is changing the way we teach our students. Our students are learning on their own and through multimedia - like videos. Today, such educational videos are designed and created by instructors like you – simply with subject knowledge, a desktop, a webcam and a good microphone.

Speaker:  Prof Karen Chan, Assistant Professor, Division of Life Science

Format: Seminar

Are you looking for teaching techniques to enhance the interaction in your classroom?

In this spring semester, CEI is offering two theme-based workshops to provide you practical strategies on how to get students actively participate in class. These workshops are hands-on and interactive, with an aim to help participants consider ways to apply some best practices in their teaching.

Speaker:  Prof Julian GROVES, Associate Professor of Social Science Education
                Division of Social Science

Venue:  Room 6558 (Lift 27-28)

Venue:  Room 6558 (Lifts 27-28)

Speaker:  Professor Allen MOY
                Chair Professor, Department of Mathematics

Format: Seminar

Speaker:  Professor Chii Shang
                Professor and Associate Head, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Format: Seminar

Speaker:  Prof. James Agutter
                 Director of Spark Design Initiative, College of Architecture & Planning, University of Utah
                 Associate Professor, School Of Architecture, University of Utah

Venue:  Room 6558 (Lift 27-28)

Speaker:  Prof. James Agutter
                 Director of Spark Design Initiative, College of Architecture & Planning, University of Utah
                 Associate Professor, School Of Architecture, University of Utah

Date & Time:  Crash Course, 7 Oct, Friday – 12:30 - 5:00 pm
                        Course Design Workshop 1, 19 Oct, Wednesday – 12:30 - 2:00 pm
                        Course Design Workshop 2, 21 Oct, Friday – 12:30 - 2:00 pm

Speaker:  Prof Roger LEVERMORE, Associate Professor of Business Education
                Department of Management

Format: Seminar

The New Faculty Orientation is a teaching and learning introductory program for all teaching staff who are either newly on-board or are within one-year of service at HKUST.  The program is specifically designed to take account of some key aspects of teaching and learning in the context of HKUST.

Speaker:  Dr. Veronica Yan
                 Postdoctoral researcher, UCLA and University of Southern California

Format:  Seminar

Speaker:  Mr. Farid Pasha, Instructor, Wolfram Research, Inc.

Format:  Seminar

In this seminar, an overview of the enhancements in Mathematica 10 and some good practices for using Mathematica has be introduced by the presenter. The participants also explored different ways that Mathematica can help with your day-to-day workflow.

The seminar has covered the following topics: 

Speaker:   Prof. Ping-Cheng (Benson) Yeh
                  Professor of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University

Format:  Seminar

In this workshop, Prof. Yeh has shared his experience as a practitioner of MOOC and flipped teaching to address questions such as:

Speaker:  Cathryn Berger Kaye, M.A
                 President of CBK Associates and ABCD Books, Author

Format: Seminar         

Workshop 1 (10 March Thu, 2016, 12:30pm - 2:00 pm):

Designing and Implementing Critical Reflection Activities in Experiential Learning Courses

Speakers  Dr Man-Fung Cheung, Visiting Scholar, Department of Physics
                 Dr Wing Ho Ko, Lecturer, Office of the Dean of Science
                 Prof P. W. Leung, Professor, Department of Physics

Format:  Seminar

The New Faculty Orientation is a teaching and learning introductory program for all teaching staff who are either newly on-board or are within one-year of service at HKUST. The program is specifically designed to take account of some key aspects of teaching and learning in the context of HKUST.

Speakers:  Professor Irwin King
                   Principal Investigator of KEEP
                   Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Engineering, CUHK

                   Professor T.C. Pong
                   Senior Advisor to the Executive Vice-President and Provost
                   Director of the Center for Engineering Education Innovation

Format: Seminar

Speakers:  Prof Fugee Tsung, Head & Professor
                 Dept. of Industrial Engineering & Logistics Management

                 Prof James S. H. Kwok, Associate Professor of Business Education
                 Dept. of Information Systems, Business Statistics & Operations Management

Format: Seminar

Speaker:  Richard Cox
                 Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business
                 Instructor, d.school, Stanford University

Format: Seminar

In this seminar, Rich looked at creativity exercises, the assumptions they hold about teaching in higher education, and the methods for creating a safe environment that increases participation and ensures that the learning objectives are met.

The New Faculty Orientation is a teaching and learning introductory program for all teaching staffs who are either newly on-board or are within one-year of service at HKUST.  The program is specifically designed to take account of some key aspects of teaching and learning in the context of HKUST.

Speakers:   Prof Deborah K. Fitzgerald
                   Kenan Sahin Dean, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
                   Massachusetts Institute of Technology

                   Prof John J. Cunningham
                   Vice President for Academic Affairs, Student Affairs and International Relations
                   University of Massachusetts System
                   Chief Executive Officer, UMassOnline

Speaker:  Prof. YEH Ping-Cheng, Benson
                Director, National Taiwan University (NTU) MOOC
                Associate Professor, EE Department/GICE
                Associate Director, Center for Teaching and Learning Development

Format:  Semianr

Time to celebrate!

Speakers:  Prof. Ronald LAU (Associate Professor of Business Education, ISOM)
                  Prof. Helen SHEN (Associate Professor, CSE)
                  Dr. Kenneth LEUNG (Lecturer, CSE)

Format: Seminar

Speakers:  Prof Mark Andrew MIHOREAN
                  Assistant Professor of Business Education, Department of Management

                  Prof Kevin TAM
                  Assistant Professor, Division of Social Science

                  Prof Julian M. GROVES
                  Senior Lecturer, Division of Social Science

Format: Seminar

Speaker:  Prof Paul FORSTER
                 Program Director (Global Learning), Global Student Programs Office;
                 Adjunct Associate Professor, Division of Environment;
                 Senior Lecturer, Department of Management

Format: Seminar

Speakers:  Dr CHEN Tian Wen, Lecturer, Department of Physics
                     PHYS 1006   Astronomy for Beginners

                  Dr NG Yee Fai, Teaching Associate, Department of Physics
                     PHYS 1001   Physics and the Modern Society

Format: Seminar

Organized by UCE Team, AQUS and CELT

Speakers:  Prof Bertram SHI
                     Professor, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
                  Mr. Sean MCMINN
                     Senior Instructor, Center for Language Education

Format: Seminar

In this sharing session, the presenters shared their own experience in designing & offering MOOC.

Venue:  Po Leung Kuk Pak Tam Chung Holiday Camp

Target Participants:  All RPGs

Quota:  38

Deposit:  $500 (Refundable*)

Transportation:  Self-arranged by participants

Speaker:   Prof PONG Ting-Chuen
                    Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
                    Senior Advisor to EVPP (Teaching Innovation & E-learning)

Format: Seminar

Speaker:  Prof. Roger CHENG, Associate Provost (Teaching & Learning), AQUS

Format:  Seminar

Speakers:  Prof CHOW King Lau
                      Professor, Division of Life Science & Biomedical Engineering
                      Director, Interdisciplinary Programs Office

                   Prof YEUNG Lam Lung
                      Head, Student Housing & Residential Life Office
                      Residence Master (UG VI), Office of the Dean of Students

Format: Seminar

The University Teaching and Learning Course is a four-day program offered to all new professors and on-the-job faculty.  For the new comers, this course will prepare you on some important aspects of university teaching and learning, such as lecturing, course design, and assessment and giving feedbacks.  For the experience faculty, this course can give you new insights in your teaching and useful advice on current teaching pedagogy to enhance student learning.

The Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching has organized a Faculty Orientation program and a University Teaching and Learning Course that covers various topics and teaching and learning support services at HKUST. All faculty members and teaching staff are welcome to join the sessions that are of interest.

Speaker:  Dr Tak HA (Associate Director, CELT)

Format: Seminar

In this seminar, the presenter has reported some of the important findings from several student surveys in 2013, namely

    (i)   A general overview of students’ participation in and satisfaction with various types of enrichment activities

Speakers:  Prof WANG Yu-Hsing, Associate Professor (CIVL)
                  Mr. OOI Ghee Leng, Ph.D. student (CIVL)

Format: Seminar

Speaker:  Professor Erica McWilliam
                 Adjunct Professor,
                 ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology

Format: Seminar

Facilitators: May Tse and Rambo Lai, CELT

Speaker: Prof FUNG Chi-Hung, Jimmy,
               Head, Division of Environment
               Professor, Department of Mathematics
Format: Seminar

Speaker:  Professor Mike SO
                Associate Professor (Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management)

Format: Seminar

The Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching has organized a Faculty Orientation program that covers various topics and teaching and learning support services at HKUST. All faculty members and teaching staff are welcome to join the sessions that are of interest.

Registration closed.

Enquiry: celt@ust.hk or
               Dr Beatrice Chu (23588940 or ctbea@ust.hk).

Speakers:  Mr. WEERASINGHE Thilina (PhD, IELM)
                 Mr. NAM Sai Lok (PhD, HUMA)

Format: Seminar

In this workshop, the RPG Learning Support Group has discussed how to manage the time as a RPG student.

The group also shared and discussed the following questions:

Speakers:  Dr Tak HA (Associate Director, CELT)
                  Dr Pakey CHIK  (Educational Research Officer, CELT)

Format: Seminar

In this seminar, the speakers has reported on the findings of a pilot study on assessing our UG students' selected generic skills, namely teamwork skills, intercultural sensitivity and creativity.  They also explored the relationships of these three generic skills with students' academic performance, as well as their in- and out-of-class experiences.

Speaker: Dr Suki Ekaratne, Associate Professor, CETL, HKU

Format: Seminar

In this workshop, participants have identified different types of feedback that can enhance subject learning & student skills, analysed when feedback is able to enhance learning and when it is not.  Also they have discussed ways to give feedback to improve student performance and their learning and also developed a rationale for feedback-supported teaching.

Speaker: Prof Harry Hubball
               Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Format: Seminar

Speaker: Associate Prof Romy Lawson (PhD)
               OLT National Teaching Fellow
               Director, Learning, Teaching & Curriculum
               University of Wollongong, Australia

Format: Seminar

Speaker: Dr Lucia Yeung

Format: Seminar

In this RPG Learning Support Group, the speaker has discussed how to manage relationship with supervisors.  There were also group sharing and discussion on the following questions:

Speaker: Prof Amine BERMAK, Professor, Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering

Format: Seminar

In this series of seminars, award-winning Professors shared their experience of teaching large classes at HKUST with participants.

Motivating student and getting them involved in acquiring knowledge is very critical for achieving course outcomes and this is particularly challenging in large classes with diverse and polarized students populations.

First Session: Thursday, September 19, 2013 - 10:00 to 12:00
Second Session: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 - 16:00 to 18:00

Presenter: Professor T. C. Pong, Senior Advisor to the Provost (Teaching Innovation and E-learning)

Format: Forum

In Fall 2013, CELT will offer the following workshops to introduce you to a range of institutional eTools that support your teaching at HKUST. All faculty members and teaching staff are welcome to join the sessions that are of interest.

About the workshops

The Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching has organized a Faculty Orientation program and a University Teaching and Learning Course that covers various topics and teaching and learning support services at HKUST. All faculty members and teaching staff are welcome to join the sessions that are of interest.

University Teaching and Learning Course is a four-day program offered to all new Assistant Professors on university teaching and learning in a blended-learning format - a mix of face-to-face and online delivery.

Speaker: Mr. Nick Noakes, Director, Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching (CELT)

Format: Workshop

In this workshop, participants has been invited to share their experience with using iPad or other tablet device for teaching and research. Participants should have gained some new techniques or apps for using these devices more productively at work and at home.

Workshop Materials:

• Useful Links

Presenterer: Prof Qiang Yang, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Format: Seminar

Presenter:  Prof Qiang Yang, CSE

Format: Seminar

In this series of seminars, Prof Qiang Yang (author of the book “Crafting Your Research Future: A Guide to Successful Master's and Ph.D. Degrees in Science & Engineering”) shared and discussed some essential skills to be a successful young researcher. Prof Yang also discussed how to explore and identify good ideas for research, how to conduct solid research to verify such good ideas and how to formulate the ideas into high-quality articles to be published in journals and conferences.

Speaker:  Mr. Alan Levine
                 CogDog It

Format: Seminar

In this workshop, the participants has experienced the web-based tools, an open online course in digital storytelling. The presenter also introduced some free tools and activities suitable for student media projects and ways for infusing more storytelling into their own communications.

Workshop Materials:

Presenter:  Michael J. Zigmond, PhD (Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh)
                    Beth A. Fischer, PhD (Director of Assist)

Format: Seminar

In these series of workshops, the presenters has discussed how to write research articles and making oral presentations, including giving seminars and presenting posters at scientific conference. Issues related to the responsible conduct of research (RCR) also integrated throughout all the sessions.

Facilitators: May Tse and Rambo Lai, CELT

Format: e-Seminar

In this semester, CELT introduced a new initiative of real time professional development at your desktop.

In this first session of the three workshop series, participants has given an experiential tour on how the key functions and features work in a Virtual Classroom from an audience’s perspective.

Speaker: Mr. Sean MCMINN

Format: Seminar

Presenters: Prof Thomas Hu and Prof Jui-Pin Wang, CIVL

Format: Seminar